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A TV Tip: Still Standing
Some television travel shows focus on scenery and local cheeses and such. “Still Standing” shows you the residents of Canadian towns through the eyes of comedian and actor Johnny Harris. I can’t recommend this show enough. Each half-hour show is packed with interesting people and a view of life in their town. The premise is […]
A TV Tip: Remaking Things
If you enjoy watching people tinkering to transform things from one state to another, and then also talk about the fixing and making you might have fun watching “Saved and Remade.” It’s a British show and at the time I am posting it’s on Amazon Prime. People bring in old items that are busted or […]
Television: The Big Bang Theory
For various reasons I’ve been rewatching shows I watched when they first ran. These days with all the streaming possibilities it’s hard some days to remember what TV used to be like, with the three networks and seasons, and summer re-runs and everyone in the office watching the same top shows. Then of course we […]
Kuretake Ai Liner Brush—Sepia Brush Pen
I’ve reviewed the original Kuretake Ai Liner brush with black pigmented ink before on my blog. Recently I saw there is now a sepia version. Who doesn’t like sketching in sepia ink now and then? I ordered up a sepia Kuretake Ai Liner pen from JetPens. (They run around $7.50 and I typically buy enough […]
Beard Alert—Death by Lightning
OK, if you’ve been reading my blog for even 10 minutes you’ll know I enjoy sketching men with beards. And I enjoy sketching faces when I watch TV. So it’s no surprise that I loved every moment of “Death by Lightning.” It didn’t hurt one bit that along with beards aplenty to draw there was […]
Brush Pen and Ink Wash Meet Hair
Hair, wavy hair. I find it fascinating. It can be on the 1910 era women I’ve been sketching lately, or on actors playing gangsters on crime shows (which this actor was). Look about for what interests you. Draw that. The pages literally fill themselves.
Sketching Throughout the Day and Eating Steak Again
The other day I wrote about “sketching anyway.” I’d meant to follow up with another post about this topic. On this day I was sketching squash and chefs. But when I pulled up the file I was reminded that those pages also documented my jaw failure. (September 2024). I wasn’t quite ready to revisit that in […]
Get Some Sketching Done This Weekend
After reading yesterday’s post you all dialoged with your favorite painter RIGHT?! Or engaged with a new artist you’re not comfortable with perhaps? You’ve got a study sketch or sketches, lots of notes, tons of ideas, maybe even some big plans for your art going forward. Great. Really, that’s great. But now it’s time to […]
Poker Face
“Poker Face” is a 2023 television show (there is going to be a season 2 in 2025) starring Natasha Lyonne as Charlie Cale a casino cocktail waitress who has the ability to read people’s faces and voices when they are lying. It’s a useful skill for poker playing (from which she is banned), but for […]
Mysteries, and Something Not a Mystery
It’s no secret that I love mysteries—books, TV, film. It doesn’t really matter. I think they keep my mind busy. Dick laughs that I work everything out in the first few minutes (if it’s TV or film), but I have to keep watching anyway, just to make sure they are being honest about clues […]